Chris R. Kyle is Associate Professor of History at Syracuse University
Jason Peacey is Professor of Early Modern British History at University College London

1 Introduction - Chris R. Kyle and Jason Peacey
2 'A dog, a butcher, and a puritan': the politics of lent in early modern England - Chris R. Kyle
3 The Lord Admiral, the Parliament-men and the Narrow Seas, 1625-7 - Thomas Cogswell
4 Space, place and Laudianism in early Stuart Ipswich - Noah Millstone
5 'Written according to my usual way': political communication and the rise of the agent in seventeenth-century England - Jason Peacey
6 Diligent enquiries and perfect accounts: central initiatives and local agency in the English civil war - Ann Hughes
7 Provincial 'Levellers' and the coming of the regicide in the Southwest - David R. Como
8 Sovereignty by the book: corporations, plantations and literate order - Dan Beaver
9 Local expertise in hostile territory: state building in the peripheries - Jennifer Wells
10 News and the personal letter, or the news education of Theophilus Hastings, 7th Earl of Huntingdon, 1660-71 - Lindsay O'Neill
11 The news out of Newgate after the 1715 Jacobite rebellion - Rachel Weil
Index